PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - M. Korcok
TI  - Medicare, Medicaid fraud a billion-dollar art form in the US
DP  - 1997 Apr 15
TA  - Canadian Medical Association Journal
PG  - 1195--1197
VI  - 156
IP  - 8
4099  - http://www.cmaj.ca/content/156/8/1195.short
4100  - http://www.cmaj.ca/content/156/8/1195.full
SO  - CMAJ1997 Apr 15; 156
AB  - Medicare and Medicaid fraud costs billions of dollars each year in the US. Investigators have shown that fraud is found in all segments of the health care system. Even though the Canadian system has stricter regulations and tighter controls, can regulators here afford to be complacent about believing that such abuse would not happen here? One province has established an antifraud unit to monitor its health insurance scheme; it already has 1 prosecution under its belt.